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Abdominal Support
Patent for an abdominal support in pants which is held up by leggings.
Date:
September 17, 1907
Creator:
Towns, Minnie C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator
Patent for an acetylene gas generator which automatically regulates the feeding of carbide into the generator.
Date:
September 17, 1907
Creator:
Kinard, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane
Patent for Aeroplane. This flying machine will automatically return to normal horizontal position if tilted.
Date:
September 17, 1909
Creator:
MacManus, Agustus, F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Teeth.
Patent for the lower set of artificial teeth, "and aims to provide retainers and combine them with the plate, so as to hold the denture in place against accidental displacement during the process of articulation, prehension, mastication, and deglutition" (lines 10-15). This invention "provides retainers which fill a vacuum in the mouth never heretofore utilized in the construction of artificial teeth and which form a rest for the muscles in their contraction incident to the movements of the jaws, and these retainers render a lower set of artificial teeth s comfortable and serviceable as if they were natural" (lines 22-29).
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Johnston, George A. & Carroll, Houston M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Stalk-Cutting Machines.
Patent for improved, cheap, and simple stalk-cutting technology with shielded protection, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 17, 1918
Creator:
McCray, Henry L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Autographic Register.
Patent for an autographic register that provides "improved means for guiding, stamping, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills; [provides] improved means for guiding the strips of paper and holding the carbon or duplicating paper in operative position; furthermore, [provides] improved means for operating the several parts of the mechanism to insure accuracy and facilitate the subsequent permanent filing of the record-bills" (lines 9-19).
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Norcross, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gate.
Patent for an improved automatic gate with levers, cam-blocks, camways, and cam-rods. It is centrally pivoting, uses a pulley, a cam groove, a forked bearing, chains, and chords.
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Everton, David Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bearing.
Patent for improvements in bearings, in which a liquid-step bearing “contains a closed receptacle for oil or other liquid and co-acting with a movable piston or shaft, and adapted to resist end thrust by means of the liquid.” (Lines 11-14) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 17, 1907
Creator:
Godsey, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Hydrant and Stop and Waste Cock.
Patent for a hydrant water cock, which stops water from flowing into the hydrant when it is turned and drains the hydrant.
Date:
September 17, 1907
Creator:
Bunch, Walter R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Condenser for Cotton-Gins.
Patent for a new means of separating air from cotton, expelling the air while the cotton is condensed and released for baling.
Date:
September 17, 1901
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Condensing-Pump.
Patent for a condensing pump with a new type of valve mechanism.
Date:
September 17, 1907
Creator:
Leggett, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Distributer.
Patent for improvements on cotton cleaners and distributors, specifically means for pneumatically raising cotton, cleaning the dirt from said cotton, and releasing quantities of cotton collected in the distributor.
Date:
September 17, 1901
Creator:
Seifert, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Compress
Patent for a cotton compress. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 17, 1912
Creator:
Mode, Marshall M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Harvesting And Cleaning Machine.
Patent for cotton harvesting and cleaning machine. The invention allows for seed cotton, hulls, husk, pods or other foreign matter to be gathered and separated from the cotton. The invention also allows bulls of cotton to be picked at the same time as other is being separated.
Date:
September 17, 1917
Creator:
Meier, John & Wallace, James F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Topping Machine.
Patent for improvement to cotton-topping machine to make growth compactly, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 17, 1901
Creator:
Palm, George William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a simple and practical fence-wire stretcher that stretches "fence-wire in the construction of fences and also taking up the slack in the wire when it sags at any point throughout the line of fence, the device being simple in construction and easily connected and disconnected from the post, as circumstances require" (lines 14-20).
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Baugh, Edward Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fish-Trap.
Patent for a fish trap with a closure, which leads fish coming from any direction into the body of the trap.
Date:
September 17, 1907
Creator:
Law, Tomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flour-Bin.
Patent for a flour-bin that keeps the flour and meal separated and sifts them separately. This patent has "a novel formation of a stirrer to prevent the banking of the flour or meal in the bin, and which can be cheaply manufactured and when in use will offer a minimum amount of resistance to the contents of the bin agitated thereby" (lines 16-21). The bin is easily cleaned.
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Patton, James Monre
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a gate, which can be opened from either direction without leaving the vehicle being driven through the gate.
Date:
September 17, 1907
Creator:
Jordan, Willis Hammelton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Fastener
Patent for latches for swinging gates. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 17, 1912
Creator:
Pochyla, Adolph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harvester-Platform and Carrier.
Patent for a harvester-platform and carrier that carries forward and elevates the grain. It has toothed bars, a framed, a crank-shaft that is connected to the toothed bars, a cross-rod loosely connected to the crank-shaft, and it is pivotally mounted on grain.
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Compton, Silas T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Engine.
Patent for an internal combustion engine for multi-cylinder engines, which has automatically opening valves powered by the exhaust gas.
Date:
September 17, 1907
Creator:
Thomas, Percy Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Sapping or Destroying Trenches or Other Defensive Works.
Patent for a method of sapping or destroying trenches or other defensive works to use in military operations.
Date:
September 17, 1918
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mower or Reaper
Patent for the improvements of machines called mowers or reapers. It includes an explanation of the improved specifications.
Date:
September 17, 1901
Creator:
Love, Patrick H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History